Airport bars in the UK, which can sell alcohol round the clock, may soon be subject to the same licensing laws as high street bars, that is, no alcohol to be served before 10.00am.

The Home Office are giving consideration to the clamp-down based on the number of passengers who board their flights already drunk, and the dangers to others this presents. Reportedly union Unite has found that 87% of staff from British-based airlines had witnessed drunken passengers at UK airports, or on flights from the UK in August 2017.

Meanwhile Club 18-30 organised its last booze-fuelled break last month and the company is being wound up due to lack of consumer interest in the culture of wet tee shirt competitions and ready sex.

An event promoted as “A massive Willy Wonka inspired dreamland with a mouth-watering array of the finest cocoa money can buy” has been slammed by some visitors who paid £17.25 a ticket as “A complete rip-off”.

The touring Fantastical Chocolate Festival ran at the Passenger Shed venue at Templemeads, Bristol on November 4 and was organised as the second of a planned 40 around the UK by Mega Events of West London, a company that claims to “create events that exceed increasing expectations” However this wasn’t one of them as dozens of visitors complained on the firm’s Facebook page that the event was “appalling”, “embarrassing” and “badly organised” with goodie bags that were “tiny bags of horrible pick n’ mix sweets” and “hideously over-priced”.

Blaming “bad press” but admitting that the Fantastical Chocolate Festival “had not met the varying expectations of some guests” Mega Events founder and CEO Nathan Reed has cancelled all the remaining dates for the Festival.

Good customer satisfaction ratings were given to Premier Inn (79%) Hilton Garden Inn (77%), Fullers (75%), Marriott Renaissance (73%) in the latest Which? hotel survey, with Crowne Plaza and Hilton Doubletree also scoring high at 72%.

Not so good were EasyHotel and Thistle with 61% each, Radisson Park Inn with 60%, Old English Inns with 57% and, way behind for the 6th year running, Britannia with just 35%.

The Swiss watch firm Swatch has pulled out of sponsoring next year’s Baselworld watch and jewellery trade fair, reportedly citing the high cost of the Basel venue as a reason (Exhibition World).

It is thought that Swatch were spending $50 million (£40 million) on its participation.

Las Vegas is to be the home of a large new conference and exhibition centre built by Caesar’s Entertainment.

Caesar’s Forum will offer the two largest pillarless ballrooms in the world of 110,000 square feet each (around 11,000 square metres) included in 550,000 square feet (around 55,000 square metres) of space at a cost of $375 million (around £300 million) and is due for completion in 2020.

Those with an interest in German films and their history will want to own two excellent and thought-provoking documentaries which cover the Weimar Republic years 1918-1933 and the Nazi years 1933-1945 These are respectively Rudiger Suchsland’s 2014 doc From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses and his Hitler’s Hollywood and both were released as a double pack of dual-format Blu-Ray/DVDs earlier this month by Eureka Entertainment, RRP £12.99 Continue reading →